REH sent
Otis Adelbert Kline
a finished typescript
entitled "Sailor Costigan
and the Yellow Cobra."This typescript
was first corrected,
and then later changed into
the Dennis Dorgan story
"Sailor Dorgan and
the Yellow Cobra" by Patrick
Ervin.It was sold to MAGIC CARPET
MAGAZINE, but never published
by them. The
typescript at the Cross Plains
Library is Howard's, but correction
tape has been used to change
Howard to Ervin, Costigan
to Dorgan, Mike to Spike,
The Sea Girl to
The Python, etc.)
Still later, a "clean
copy" was produced that incorporated
all the changes and corrections.

There is also an
original Costigan typescript,
titled "The
Fangs of the Yellow Cobra."
"A Korean
Night" is a slightly
different, earlier
original draft of
the Costigan version.

REH
wrote an untitled synopsis: "John
Gorman found
himself in Samarkand,
. . .".
Charles Hoffman and Marc
A. Cerasini wrote the story SHE-CATS OF
SAMARCAND based on the REH synopsis.
RISQUE STORIES includes both
the original REH synopsis as well as the
short story with the author listed as "Sam Walser."
The SHE-CATS title was also applied to the
synopsis in THE NEW HOWARD READER #4.